Re:Ask HN: How to be in peace with all the wrong in the world?
by yesenadam on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:27AM
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Ah sorry to..provoke you. I don't know you personally. Don't know why you are suddenly being..unpleasant. I didn't think I was unkind - I did say when you explained you made total sense. The vast majority of my dear friends are christians. And many christians do believe that because something's in the bible, it must be right. So I thought maybe you do too. How that shows unkindness or disregard to you, or blindness, I don't know.
By 'biblical platitudes', I meant, well, your point was the 'mote in your neighbour's eye, beam in your own', right? That's why you were saying every bad thing they saw in someone else, the same or worse was in them? Maybe I'm wrong about that.
I was focused on specifically what you said. Sorry if you don't want to face the implications of that. I'll try to forget about it too, I guess. Maybe we aren't so alike? Good luck.
Re:Ask HN: How to be in peace with all the wrong in the world?
by jstewartmobile on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:43AM
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Nothing personal here. Just using your words to illustrate my point. They seemed rather snarky in print.
Like take this quote for example:
"Maybe you think that because something like it's in the bible, it must be right."
This is either your unkindness and disregard for me personally, for religious people in general, or for all of the above. It's just that the tables have turned to the point where this manifestation is socially acceptable, so you're blind to it.
As for the Nietzsche, one has to wonder how many people are against racism due to a deep moral sentiment--like the abolitionists of old? How many are against it because it works against them--like minorities? How many are against purely from the fear of repercussions--the HR department, or society at-large?
From what I've seen, people in that first group are an exceedingly rare breed.